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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In 2018, Arizona voters overwhelmingly rejected school vouchers. On the ballot that year was a measure that would have allowed all parents — even the wealthiest ones — to receive taxpayer money to send their kids to private, typically religious schools. Arizonans voted no, and it wasn’t close. Even in a right-leaning state, with powerful Republican leaders supporting the initiative, the vote against it was 65% to 35%. Coming...

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- At least 26 were killed and 62 wounded when an explosion occurred Saturday morning at the busy Quetta railway station in southwestern Pakistan. About 100 people were in the vicinity of the blast that occurred as a train was readying to leave for Peshawar at 8:45 a.m., CNN, the BBC and Al Jazeera reported. Snip The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack in Quetta, which is the capital of Balochistan.

A prominent community church in Northern California is under scrutiny for orchestrating a nonofficial ballot drop box scheme in the month leading up to the Nov. 5 presidential election. After SFGATE presented evidence of the church’s ballot-gathering activities to Tehama County’s registrar of voters, officials said they would refer the matter to the District Attorney’s Office.

I'm a retired economics professor who voted against Harris, mainly because of her economic policies. For example, Harris (and virtually all Democrats) rally around the statement: “The rich should pay their fair share!” I have a number of problems with this statement when it is a basis for government economic policy. For example, consider her statement that the rich don't pay their fair share. First, who gets to determine “a fair share”? Currently, the top 10 percent of income earners (i.e., the “rich”) paid 73.7% of all taxes collected by the IRS. Wage earners with $550,000 or more (the top...

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are scheduled to meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday morning, providing an unusual image of the two men who have expressed disdain for each other but are engaging in a ritual that has taken place during most transitions aside from 2020. The two are planning to meet at 11 a.m., according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who said additional details would come later.

A shady Democratic attorney who once loudly attacked President-elect Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 presidential results is now at the heart of a desperate legal effort to snatch Pennsylvania’s Senate race away from its rightful winner — Republican Dave McCormick, campaign insiders say. Marc Elias, a longtime Democratic election attorney and dirty trickster, is attempting to force the Pennsylvania Senate race into a recount, even though it was called for McCormick by the Associated Press on Thursday, with even the state’s most liberal news outlets echoing the call since. Despite the race being called, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey...

In preparation for President-Elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested that the bloc will look to replace Russian liquid natural gas (LNG) imports with supplies from the United States. Speaking Friday from the European Council meeting in Budapest, EU President von der Leyen vowed to “build good relations” with the incoming Trump administration “from the very beginning.” “I had the opportunity yesterday afternoon to congratulate Donald J. Trump on the phone. We discussed, among others, the topic of Ukraine and defence, trade, and energy,” she said. In contrast to 2016,...

Story of Kamala's last days

"Please, please, it's too much winning...we can't take it anymore...Mr. President, it's too much!" Lol

Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown were in the original Supremes, first known as the Primettes, having grown up in Detroit

I thought I read recently that Cornyn WILL have a primary challenger when he's up for reelection in 26. That should put him in a very bad position to win senate leader (amongst a myriad other reasons). If he does have a challenger, who is it?

Jon Voight has been a Donald Trump supporter and defender through all of it. With prayer-filled clarity, Voight’s voice has been steadfast.Within the silent pause toward the end of this message, the tears flow:

Relations between Ukraine and the UK have 'worsened' since the Labour party took power, officials in Kyiv have said. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is yet to visit Ukraine in the four months since he took office in government. According to a senior figure in President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, a trip to Kyiv would now be 'worthless' unless Starmer committed to replenishing stocks of the long-range Storm Shadow system. This comes after Boris Johnson urged the PM to break the impasse over allowing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles into Russia, warning that every day's delay is costing lives. The senior...

Ella Emhoff continued her emotional meltdown over her stepmother Kamala Harris' presidential election loss by sharing an unflattering image of herself weeping to her Instagram. The activist and fashion designer, 25, used an image from Harris' concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday as she urged her 500,000 followers to stay strong after Donald Trump's landslide win. 'Truly no words,' Emhoff captioned the post. 'We are all gonna get through this. It just f***ing hurts like a b***h right now and that's ok.' Her tears and subsequent post sparked concern online. 'Leave Ella Emhoff alone but do not ignore the...

NBA coach Steve Kerr mocked Donald Trump after the former president clinched the White House on Wednesday. Trump swept the battleground states in a historic win this week to deliver him to a second term. Kerr, head coach of the Golden State Warriors and outspoken supporter of Democrats, mocked the former president by saying he is glad there was no voter fraud this time around. “I believe in democracy. I think the American people have spoken and voted for Trump. I want him to do well the next four years. I want our country to do well.” Kerr told reporters...

MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump’s lies, and will support him until the end. At a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had driven hours from out of state. Vendors hawked T-shirts with slogans such as Say no to the ho, and Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe Biden has dementia and Kamala isn’t Black, sometimes chanting the phrases out loud to amused onlookers. Hundreds of people still standing in the winding...

According to CNN reports, Pentagon brass met recently to discuss and plan how to override President Trump’s 47 orders. This smells like treason. The military-industrial complex is infuriated that the first president in 40 years who did not start a war while in office has returned to power. This latest report that the failed Pentagon brass who surrendered to the illiterate Taliban barbarians, donated billions of dollars in US weapons, and abandoned Bagram Air Force Base, are plotting against Trump 47 is not a complete surprise. Retired General Mark Milley, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, openly...

US President-elect Donald Trump plans to dramatically increase sanctions against Iran due to the Islamic Republic’s support for terrorist militias, the expansion of its nuclear program, and a recently unveiled plot to assassinate him, sources briefed on Trump’s early plans told The Wall Street Journal on Friday. -snip- Sources briefed on the plan said that once he’s in office, Trump would try to recreate the strategy of his first term by quickly cutting off Iran’s oil income, including pursuing any organization that handles Iranian oil. 'Iran is definitely in a position of weakness' “I think you are going to see...

Yet, those who backed Harris are convinced that the woman who became vice president because of her gender and the color of her skin has vast potential, and if being president of the United States is not in the cards, perhaps a seat on the Supreme Court will do. An anti-Trump account on X under the name Protect Kamala Harris floated a proposal that would result in the failed Democratic nominee sitting on the nation’s highest court. “Want to blow Republicans’ minds? Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor retires. President Biden appoints Kamala Harris to Sotomayor’s vacancy with a lame duck...

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